Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and
environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly …

New pavement construction techniques and the increased use of recycled materials have
led to unexpected and premature pavement failure in recent years. The pavement's …

Fatigue cracking is one of the main distress modes of highway asphalt pavements. In
laboratory fatigue tests, haversine or sinusoidal loading waves are commonly applied to …

When used as compressive air energy storages, underground salt caverns are often
subjected to discontinuous cyclic force, characterized by low-stress time intervals (LSIs). In …

Asphalt binder plays an important role in the overall resistance of an asphalt mixture to
pavement distresses. The rheological properties should be fully characterized before it is put …

Understanding the self-healing mechanism and efficiently evaluating healing potential of
asphalt materials is a crucial topic, which is especially necessary for a precise prediction of …

The mechanical behaviour of different parts (top, middle and bottom) of concrete exposed to
monotonic and cyclic loading is investigated through laboratory testing. Strain evolution and …

This paper describes investigation into the change in complex modulus (norm and phase
angle) during cyclic tests on bituminous mixtures. The change can be explained by four …

The fracture of hot mix asphalt (HMA) is accompanied by the energy absorption and release.
Energy includes the dissipated energy (U d), elastic strain energy (U e) and post crack …

A nonlinear parallel-bonded stress corrosion (NPSC) model is proposed to simulate the
fatigue characteristics of artificial rock (concrete) during cyclic loading. Numerical …